Boarder crossing insanity - CBP gone crazy...
We've been taking a TT across the US/Canada border for years. We have Nexus and are "pre-cleared" for higher security. We always use the Pacific Highway crossing in south Surrey, BC. because it's th...
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wa8yxm wrote:
Sometimes. Once you are cleared you can POLITELY ask and they will tell you.
or.. Well.. They have powers most police wish they had. INCLUDING The power to do warrantless searches.
Once they (U.S. Customs at Tecate, B.C./Tecate, CA crossing) tore my 4 door German sedan apart in secondary. They found nothing illegal. I asked them POLITELY, "Why me?" The inspector said, "It's just your lucky day. The computer selected you at random." If you cross the border enough times, eventually this will happen to you.
Google: "International Boundary Zones"
Most U.S. Border crossings are IBZ's. You don't have constitutional search and seizure rights within an IBZ. Law Enforcement can do whatever they want regarding searches/seizures that are considered unlawful elsewhere within the U.S.A., and, they do not have to meet the standards of probable cause that apply elsewhere within the U.S.A.
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